♪ ♪ hi, everyone, this is al jazerra america i am john siegenthaler in new york. taken once again a huge setback for iraq, the second largest city falls. friendly fire, what could be one of the worst cases of accidental american casualties since the afghan war began. >> we are going to pay for this. >> dire predicks and new complaints about the deal to free bowe bergdahl. dangerous journey, why immigrant children are risking their lives to come to the united states alone. and spike, the painful new

tactic to discourage london's homeless from sleeping on the streets. ♪ ♪ two that ever years ago the last american combat troops left iraq. tonight that crypt is nearing a state of emergency. the second largest city, mosul, is now in the hands of a group inspired by al qaeda. fighters took over that city in an attack that lasted just a few hours. the group is auld the islamic state of iraq and levante. it has intensified its fighting in iraq since april when elections put their political rivals in power. imran kahn reports on the violence today from baghdad. >> reporter: in the early hours of tuesday, fight presser the islamic state of iraq and the levante launched you one of the

boldest attacks in the north. 1300 fightsers besieged the city and within a few hours took over at least 75% of it, according to local sources. iraq's army and police forces also abandoned their positions. within a few hours then a prison break freed 2,400 prisoners. then the provincial government was taken over quickly followed by two tv stations and some banks, a few hours later iraqi prime minister addressed the nation. falling for an emergency session of parliament. >> translator: we call upon the parliament to declare a state of emergency. >> reporter: he also put the country roy maximum alert and called for militias to i can at that irrelevant calf citizens. i also called for the international community to act. >> we had seem continued fighting, where we have unconfirmed reports of other cities may have fallen to the control of the terrorists.

this situation is perhaps the biggest threat that the country has faced to its stability in quite sometime. and it reflects a broader threat to the ring that up needs to bee addresses not just in iraq but the larger scale to the region. >> reporter: parliament is going to debate the state of emergency. it won't be easy to get as many politician to his vocally criticize the handling of the crisis, earlier they said the army was partly to blame. >> translator: when battles intensified inside the city of mosul the iraqi forces abandoned their weapons and the commanders fled leaving behind weapons and armored vehicles their positions were easy pray for terrorists even the airport, planes and command positions all of them have fallen in addition to weaponweapons cashes, also priss were stormed and prisoners set free. what happened is a catastrophe by any measure. >> reporter: the question many people here are asking

themselves, is how was a lightly-armed group by the us lame i state in iraq and levante able to take over a city of nearly 2 million people. this is a big prop began a victory for i.s.i.l. and one that they will be keen to trumpet. however other people are worried about any potential state of emergency. they say that if prime minister gets such sweeping powers, he might find it very difficult to give them up. imran kahn, al jazerra, baghdad. the u.s. has increased its spy presence in iraq as the isil has gained ground. but officials have not decided whether to keep sending weapon to his iraq's government. isil fighters have already been seen in american humvees and there is concern that today's attacks in mosul could put more u.s. weapons in their hands. was lynn jordan is at the state department. >> reporter: the obama administration says it's deeply concerned about the deteriorating situation in inside iraq particularly in the north where mosul fell for

members of isil on tuesday. a state department spokesperson noted that the deputy assistants secretary of state for iraq and iran, has been in the country consulting with top iraqi leadership about the best ways the u.s. can assist in this situation. which left members dead. the obama administration says there is no consideration of sending u.s. troops back in to iraq, mainly because it believes that the iraqi army can secure the situation inside the country. however, the u.s. is very worried about the spill-on effect about the possibility that the violence inside iraq could effect the security situation and its neighboring countries. and that is something which the u.s. does not want to see happ happen. now robert, the former cia counter terrorism director joins

us tonight. robert, welcome. >> thank you, goods to be here. >> what do you think is the significance of what happened today? >> well, this is very significant. the isil has had control of large parts of the thinly-populated western province of iraq, anbar province but as was just said this is the second largest city in iraq for isil to have take then city is a major step ward and gives them a much larger platform in iraq through which to sew mayhem. and how does this happen. in a matter of hours the isil rolls in and takes over the second largest city in iraq. is that something that iraq must have anticipated or not? >> this is -- this situation has been a long time in coming. isil has been increasing its strength in and around mosul for quite sometime. and the limitations of the iraqi

army are very well known. i think what's taken people by surprise is just how rapidly they have collapsed in mosul once things began to unravel. >> so what's the next step for a group like isil? what is their strategy? >> well, they want to establish a new islamic emirates and as much territory as they possibly can. they have probably gone about as far as they can right now in syria. in syria i think they'll focus much more on governance than fighting. and so this is going to free up a lot of their troops to carry the fight forward inside iraq. i think the situation in iraq will get a lot worse before better. a lot of united states soldiers spent a great deal of time, energy and blood, unfortunately, in iraq trying to secure that country. and train it the iraqi security forces. what went wrong? >> well, that's a long story. i think that u.s. training of iraqi forces was fairly effective in the last couple of years. but it was a long time in coming.

i don't think our training of the iraqi forces back in the beginning of the u.s. okay pace was very effective at all. i think we are seeing the results of that now. the iraqi army particularly suffers from very bad tactical leadership and that cannot be turned around overnight. >> and with training from the united states either? >> no. again it takes sometime in order for new leaders to be formed. and unfortunately, the u.s. administration is making it very clear that they have no intention of sending trainers once again to iraq. >> exactly. and you led counter terrorism efforts in that region. how does the threat, the isil threat -- how does it -- is it being taken seriously enough, do you think by the united states? >> well, i think it's being taken seriously. but i think the -- the price for doing something effective about it is one that this administration simply doesn't want to pay. i think that we are going to see the strength of isil increase in

iraq. it's interesting that the current iraqi prime minister has called for tribal militias to face up against these extremists and i think that is the key to this situation. the problem is, that those militias for the most part doesn't trust him and are unlikely respond to his call. >> robert, thanks for your inside, we appreciate it. >> you are very well on come. tonight tragedy in afghanistan. it's being called one of the deadliest cases of friendly fire since the war there began. five american soldiers, at least one afghan soldier dead after a coalition helicopter mistook them follow a taliban fighters. mike viqueira has more from the white house. >> reporter: well, there have been other instances of friendly fire, tragically causing casualties on the american side, perhaps most notably back in 2004 where the former nfl football player pat tillman was killed by friends police fire. this is by far the worst example, the worse incidents thus far in the 13-year war that

america has fought in afghanistan. our local reporters have spoken with the local police chief and other sources within afghanistan, the story that they are hearing goes like this, u.s. and afghan forces were conducting operations in a remote southern province in afghanistan ahead of saturday's run-off election for president a key election not only for afghans but for the future of american forces there. they were ambushed by taliban forces engage million dollars a fire fight. called in an air strike and tragically, the air strike struck behind american lines. what we understand is five americans were killed as was their interpreter and one afghan soldier. a total of seven dead. at the pentagon the he spokesman there rear admiral john kerr had i this to say. >> i can confirm that five american troops were killed in an incident in southern afghanistan, will not get in to too much detail qualifying who they are and the specifics of the mission. we do have reason to suspect that friendly fire was the cause

here. specifically friendly fire from the air. >> now, it bears remembering, though, prem announced the en of u.s. combat operations two years hence, there are still 32,000 american in combat service there, 32,000 men and women in uniform. oils an extremely dangerous place. american fatalities from 500 in a peak in 2010 down to 29 thus far this year, still operations continue. as the united states prepares for its withdrawal by 2016. that's mike viqueira. aring. pentagon officials were on capitol hill briefing them on the swap that freed bowe bergdahl but the meetings haven't stopped the convers con controversy. several want to know why they were not spoken to about it. they were talk about the seek troy keep him safe. here is what the republican house speaker had to say.

>> we are going to fay for this. there is not any doubt in nigh minds, there are going -- nigh minmymind there will be losses associated with what came out of this. >> many democrats at the hearing said they trusted the process and the leaders in charge of the squad. >> our top uniformed military leaders supported this agreement. were they involved in it? they assured me that they were. and did they support it? they assured me they strongly supported it because of the ethos of getting our people back. republicans say as many as 90 administration officials knew about the swap, they say no members of congress were told. in south career at captain and crew of the officer that i sanction two months ago are now on trial. more than 300 people were killed or many, many children. students. their families are demanding swift sentencing, harry faucet reports. >> reporter: what would be a day

of high anxieties i began inning sid. they scuffled to gain access. this was the man they came to see whether their own eyes the campaign, one of fine members of the ferry's crew who made their way through another entrance, all are accused of negligence and breaking maritime law. four of them, including the captain, are also charged with murder. >> reporter: for abandoning the ship to its fate after passengers were told to stay in their cabins. >> translator: if they don't get the death sentence, then they will be walking the streets in this country again. that's very wrong, they don't have a right do that. cameras were only allowed in for the opening moments of the trial but just afterwards when the relatives saw the crew, there were shouts of animals, murderers. but there was also an opportunity for the dents to make its points the lawyer saying the captain had done all that he could to right the ship and it was only when he realized that all hope was lost that he was the last member of the bridge to make his way to safety.

the charges of homicide is unusual in a case like this and combined with the president's assertion days after the disaster that the crew's actions were akin to murder has ledsome to query the potential for fair someones this trial. from seoul there was a reminder those in court are the familiar from the only accused. the president calling on police to redouble their effort to his arrest the businessman and religious leader accused of being the real owner of the ferry company. its actions and allegedly overloaded the officer and i those of the governments and regulators will also be key in providing the final stwoer answo this tragedy but in the coming the answers from the captain and crew. back in this country, a major primary defeat tonight for one of the leading republicans on capitol hill. house majority leader eric cantor has lost his primary to a tea party backed challenge. the virginia republican's opponent had campaign on the

issue of immigration, economics professor dave brad accused cantor of backing legislation giving amnesty to millions of people living illegally in the united states. al jazerra's political contributor dave joins us tonight on the tariff. what is your reaction to this defeat? >> it's historic, monument think, historic, use whatever word you want to describe this, but almost certainly without question this is the biggest tea party upset since the tea party became the tea party and formed as a movement in 2009. eric cantor is the epitome of the republican establis establi. so if the tea party was ever to have a victory of this proportion, it was going to be some somebody like him and nobody expected this, though really in a million years the least of which anyone who was parts of the republican party establishment like eric cantor. >> i mean, other than being a mechanic of the republican establishment, some might even

say right of the establishment, what was it about this candidate that other than immigration, that really convinced voters to vote for him? >> turn out number one a big thing. of course in any political election, you've got to campaign. you've got to get your people out. you've got to get your base out and eric cantor by all accounts did not run much of a campaign. certainly not one that was vigorous, and like a lot of people who have been in the republican party and faced a tea party challenger have done, many of them have really been able to raise a lot of money, spends a lot of money and also have super packs or other outside groups that were not necessarily directly affiliated but very supportive of their efforts in congress and as candidates, come and give their air cover so to speak, but hundreds of thousands of dollars of television ads up on testimony v eric cantor didn't have that. so he will be scratching his head from now until in

perpetuity pretty much trying to figure out what exactly went wrong here. some of his internal polls showed him up 30 points at one point and here he is tonight losing in a primary. >> 30 points. so in the last few days, did polls show it getting closer? >> there wasn't everybody a whole lot of polling being done on this race beus it seems to be a fore connecticut collusion. it's a shot not only to his campaign but everyone in the republican party who fully expected that else not only breeze through the primary but win the generally election and become the house majority leader again as he's been for several go arounds. a major story tonight as we heard from dave leventhal. good to have you on the program. thanks again and we'll continue to follow this, but coming up next, risking it all, a child migrant talks about his experiences crossing the border. and history lesson, why some teachers say it's not history at all, it's propaganda.

little second to the last day of school at a high school in or organ the day with gunfire. a teenage gunman shot and killed a 14-year-old student shortly after classes started at reynolds high school in troutdale. school was evacuated about but the gun man tike his own life, tonight president obama offered his most forceful comments get about gun violence in america. >> the united states does not have a monopoly on crazy people. [laughter] >> it's not the only country that has psychosis. and yet, we kill each other in these -- in these mass shoot says at rates that are exponentially higher than any place else. well, what's the difference?

the difference is that these guys can stack up a bunch of ammunition in their houses. >> the president was speaking in a town hall meeting hosted by tumbler according to a group that favors gun control, today's attack in oregon is the least the 74th school shooting since the massacre in newtown, connecticut in 2012. coming up a look at the global impact, watch our special series guns around the world each night at 8:00 eastern an. more than 40 million around the world are h.i.v. positive. president bush's daughter runs global held core a nonprofit that helps feet the disease in the united states and after cam. i asked her about the group's work and the obstacles this face. >> i think the main challenges that we face are access to adequate care. i am lucky enough to work on global health issues and the fact that there aren't enough trained people working on global health issues, not enough

doctors, not enough nurses, not enough community health workers. and the fact that just systems to distribute drugs are weak. so people might get sick in the united states, you can go to a local health center that's nearby, unfortunately in a lot of rural areas that means it's a -- if someone is sick they need to walk nine hours to a local health center and the implication that his that has on them getting the care that they need is pretty brutal. >> i mean, i don't know whether you have worked in nigeria, but just for example, boko haram, are there groups like that, or tribal groups that make it much more difficult politically or culturally to get in and do the work? >> i have nod worked in nigeria but i have been there, but the world has paid attention to the fact that there are huge cultural differences around the world. i think for us, working on global health issues, culture is a huge part, and you have to be really respectful of culture, because, of course, if you can change culture in a respectful way, then you can reach many

more people. and i think we are trying to work with local young leaders because they are the ones that know their culture and can change it and influence their own culture they have the enters that theianswers that chair comy knees. >> what are some of the things that you are doing -- your foal fellows are doing to raise aware. >> ness insuring that people know their status and get tested and realize it's not a death sentence. and so our fellows have been approaching these issues pretty creatively. we have global health care fellows who were tasked with testing youth in burundi and 3% of the country has electricity. so radio will not work wealth. our global health care fellows there were working with an organization called psi and enrolled local choreographers to stage flash mobs around the country. you can imagine being in a rural vim i believe and looking over and 10 core ago afterrers were dancing, that's a way it get

people's attention. droves would come out and watch the flash mob and they would use the opportunity to say we have your attention, let's talk about some difficult issues, now thatter hear let's explain what h.i.v. is how it's transmitted and how you can be safe and if you are concerned how you can get tested. >> how have you been work to go reduce mother to child transmission. >> many of our fellows are working on reducing that. we are living at this exciting time if you are an h.i. jim woman, your child has a 98% chance of being born h.i.v. negative in the 24 hours that you are giving birth if you take precautions so our global health tear fellows are first of all work to go insure that expectant mothers know their status so they can take those precautions so that they are at health centers to take the prechangeses and get the mentorship and social support that they need to raise an h.i.v. anything at this baby that's a an enormous bright hope in globe health so you can see how we can have an h.i.v.

free generation. >> you believe that? >> you slightly believi absolut. i hope in my life we see that. >> because of the drugs and work like groups like yours are doing, right? >> i think so. we also now have great examples of people living approximate h.i.v. and the stigma is decreasing quite a bit and medicine is there, technology is there. we are so connected now that i think we can use that to insure that the people around the world receive the education that they need around it. and then we can use technology to make sure that there is not drugs stock outs in rural areas. >> after people going to africa or different places and convey in message and spread awareness and meet the challenges, what do they say to you about the work? >> they say this is their life's work, once you start working on these issues it's hard not to

work on these issues. i mean, frankly to me there is nothing more rewarding than seeing our global health care fellows who are making decisions every single day, who are listening to community members and insuring that their voices are being heard. and that programs are being designed for them. to bet early -- to be more effective. to serve more people. to save more lives and i think once you get the opportunity to work on problems like this, and see real change, it might be little, but it's something. it's pretty hard not to want to keep working on those issues. >> obviously you are continuing to work on them and good luck to you. and we are proud to have you on the program again. thanks very much. >> thank you. thanks for having me. and we continue our coverage, our breaking news story now. house majority leader eric cantor lost his primary to a tea party-backed challenger. he's speaking right now let's listen. >> they have put in so much extraordinary work to try to win this campaign but have done so for the last decade or so. so i want to thank them.

[applause] >> now, serving as the seventh district congressman and then having the privilege to be majority leader that is been one of the highest honors of my life. and you know, what i set out to do and what the agenda that i have always said we are about, is we want to create a virginia and an america that works for everybody. and we need to focus our efforts as conservatives, as republicans, on putting forth our conservative solutions so that they can help solve the problems for so many working middle class families that may not have the opportunity that we have. we can also put our solutions to work for the most vulnerable. you know, i spent a lot of time on charter schools and education opportunity, to make sure that everyone in america can have

access to that american dream, starting with a quality education, we talked about research a lot in my office and in our campaign and in congress. i am really proud of the gabriel and miller kids first resource act. [applause] because what it says as conservatives that we don't believe you ought to spend taxpayer dollars on political conventions that, in account fact, it'fact it'sprobably bette disease not only do you save lives and help people you can ultimately solve the federal deficit problem by bringing down health care soft costs. [applause] so these are the kind of things i know we'll continue to work on. i know there is a lot of long faces here tonight.

and it's disappointed, sure, but i believe in this country. i believe there is opportunity around the next corner i look forward to working for opportunities because those solutions are the answer to problems that so many people are facing today. thank you all very, very much. [applause] >> that's eric cantor who has lost his bid to be reelected house majority leader. lost to his primary to a tea party-backed candidate. a challenger, his name is dave brat. mike viqueira is on the telephone to talk more about this, mike. this came as a big surprise. what does it mean in the house of representatives? >> reporter: it's amazing, john. it's a shocker. and you can't overstate that. here is a man, eric cantor, who has rises up the ranks of the house republican leadership, has been steady, seemingly

inevitable and inexorable and now it's been derailed in a complete surprise. there was some talk of this gentlemen dave brat. the tea party challenging actually putting forth a credible challenge to eric cantor and his richmond area district but it was really off the radar for the most part of most political analysts. eric cantor was going to be the next speaker of the house. that was widely assumed within the belt way and certainly on capitol hill because john boehner, sort of the whisper that you hear and for good reason, because people are talking to people who know what they are taking about this was going to be john boehner's last year, and eric cantor was going to be the house speaker. he would be the first jewish speaker. he would remind people he was the highest ranking jewish man in congress. he became chief deputy whip in the house under a man named roy

blunt. that we want on for several years and then cantor was going to challenge blunt and blunt stepped aside. he's now been elected to senate for missouri. it just goes for show that you cantor was respected within the house of representative and that includes conservatives as well. evidently. the voters, at least republican voters in his district saw it differently. and this comes as a complete shot tonight. >> what is his district like, mike? >> it's a relatively well off district. if memory serves and i apologize i am not sitting in front of an electoral map at the moment. but it runs roughly west of the richmond in to a relatively effluent area of richmond. there is some finance there, some financial firms, eric cantor is very active in legislation involving the finance industry. and his wife was a democrat, another thing that he would

often talk about in sort of a joking manner. but, again, if eric cantor can go down, john, to a tea party challenger, and there was the year of revenge of the establishment, you know, with the exception of the senate race, the tea party candidates were losing all the way around across the board around the country. this turns the tide. you can no longer call it the year of establishment strikes back. >> this is not someone deeply involved in politics, this identity-party backed challenger at least not in the past. he's an economics professor and i guess one of the big issues was immigration. but more than that what does one small primary race in virginia mean to the whole republican party? >> reporter: well, first of of l it's inning dick tich of turmoil in the republican party. and you mentioned immigration and eric cantor had been among the lead herb ship taking

leadership role recognizing that republicans -- [inaudible] the immigration issue standing in front of immigration form not necessarily in year in 2014 in the congressional election, but certainly in 201 2016 in the presidential elections and eric cantor and john boehner, his nominal boss had been work to go bring the republican conference along, it's a measure of how confidence eric cantor was in a victory tonight that has turned out to a defeat that he was, in fax, working towards -- not in a very obvious way, but working towards some sort of pushing some sort of comprehensive are you form through the house of representative where it had been stuck. it's just indicative of the fault in the republican party that someone can come out of nowhere and in fact that is typical of tea party candidates, they are citizens, they are private citizens, they are car dealers, or whatever you in

their district and end upcoming out o of nowhere to win. it's shocking. >> mike viqueira on the phone in washington, thank you very much. we'll have more on the breaking story the defeat of the house majority leader dave cantor in a moment. >> how scientist -- eric cantor that is. and how stopping the spread of a disease by mosquitoes. all coming up after this.

hi, everyone, this is al jazerra america i am john sing thought never new york. we are following breaking news on a stunning defeat in politics tonight. house majority leader eric cantor lost his primary to a tea party-backed candidates. he was the second most important man in the house. dave brat had accused cantor of backing immigration legislation that would give amnesty to millions of people living illegally in the united states. our political contributor jason johnson is on the phone now from washington. jason, what do you see as the significance of this? >> this is a great move for college professors, i gotta say. eric cantor should have seen this coming. and a lot of people who were

observing this race on the outside assumed that this would be a shoe in. but it wasn't. he has been slowly alienating many members of the seventh district for years. and the way he was organizing the local political party. ask and the fath that he was seen to go an advocate of immigration gre greg reformatim. marine was being held in mexico. he was in trouble and underestimated how much politics would come in to play. >> let me bring in joe watkins as well. what do you think of this one? >> it's a shot to a lot of us watching the race. but i think mr. brat has made point with the constituency on painting himself as a local guy who is well-versed on the issues, especially the economic issues and he will work with the district and he painted eric cantor as part of the power

elite in washington and used the fact that he was the second highest ranking member of congress on the republican side against him successfully. and so tonight he is the winner. he's the nominee. >> so does this make this an official major split in the connectiobetween the tea party e republican party. >> the republicans have to work hard like democrats have done successfully which is to work with everybody under their big tent. i mean, the republican party is trying to be a bigger tent than it has been in order for the party to be successful when the 2016 cycle certainly. it has to a fact more than just its base, it has to attract women and latinos and african americans and young people and independent voters and people from the lgbt community. so it's gotta learn to live with the tea party as well. >> let's listen to what eric cantor had to say a few moments ago during his concession speech. >> the answer to the problems

that so many people are facing today -- you know, we in the house majority continue to try to focus how we can provide -- >> well, we obviously don't have that. we'll try get it in a second. jason, some are sorting suggesting that in some ways eric cantor didn't pay enough attention to his own district. is that the way you see? >> no. no. and i am right down here in the neighboring district. that's not what the story was on the ground. >> reporter: if anything, it was that he was throwing his weight around a little too much. the way the republican party is organized down in virginia is the individual neighborhoods all sort of have a representative that works with the member of congress in the last couple of months eric cantor has been trying to stack and control local republican party in the seventh district. and a lot of people in this area didn't appreciate it. they felt like he was throwing his weight around too much. they were a little too tired of hearing him say, you know, i am going to be speaker of house

soon and so he wasn't disengaged from his district. people don't like how he was throwing his weight around. >> lets me play that sound bite of cantor just a little while ago. >> i know there is a lot of long faces here tonight and it's disappointing, sure. but i believe in this country, i believe there is opportunity around the next corner for all of us. so i look forward to continuing to fight with all of you for the things that we believe in for the conservative cause, because those solutions are ours are the answer to the problems that so many people are facing today. thank you all very very much. >> the words of eric cantor tonight making his concession speech. joe, jason, we'll be talking about this coming up in the future. thanks very much. >> thank you. >> any time. now, coming up, children traveling thousands of miles across treacherous land alone in search for the american dream. it's a story of desperation that we have been bringing you for the past several months.

and the past year nearly 50,000 unaccompanied children have been found trying to cross america's southwest border. too often if these children aren't found trying to cross the border, they are found in shallow graves. heidi joe castro tha has their y from southern texas. >> reporter: in a south texas cemetery 80 miles north of the border, scattered among the head stones and them you memorials oe known. hundreds of undocumented immigrants are buried here. >> in biohazard bags. in garbage bags. we found one in a shopping bag that was from the -- that was from a funeral home. >> reporter: dr. lori baker and her team of forensic volunteers from baylor university are exhuming the bodies in hopes of one day returning them for their families. the team comes every year. it's never an easy job. but this year, the discoveries are especially troubling.

>> they could be children, they could be children. some of the bags that we are taking out are very, very small. >> reporter: the scientists won't know for sure until they test the bodies in their lacks, but they say with the number -- labs but they say with the number of unaccompanied number of minors almost tripling this year, the number of child deaths will climb as well. baker says most of the children's bodies will go undiscovered. >> their bones are small, as it is, and once scavengers come in and once they did he compose, thedecompose theywill be even h. >> reporter: how confidence are you that they are out in there and how many do you think are out there? >> there has to be so many. we find so many adults, there has to be so many children. >> reporter: brooks county rancher mike vicker sees it first hand. as a member of the tix border ds border volunteers, helping rounds up undocumented immigrants, he also rescues children lost on his land. >> we find children all the time left behind out here. and they were starving to death.

they hadn't had food or water in three or four days, and they were in bad shape. dehydrated. throwing up, bleeding from the nostrils, this is a sign of dehydration. >> reporter: and sometimes vickers says they find small bodies. >> there is a ranch further east of here they found a young bay . three or 45 people die ute here, maybe more. >> reporter: so why so many bodies here 80 miles north of the border? well, the u.s. border patrol checkpoint down the highway is key. the sheriff says smugglers will drive immigrants no further than this point and here is where they would take off on foot through the rough terrain, the nearest town is 15 nile 15 mile. >> they walk all this way through all of this private property and through this deep sand and these kids k579 keep cp up and the women can't keep up. >> reporter: what happens to them? >> they die if they can't find

their way out of here they die. >> it's did h devastating. it's so wrong this is happening. it's so wrong it's been happening for so long. and i am amazed that there is not public outrage. this needless loss of life and it's happening so abundantly a is who the border and there seems to be a callusness towards it. >> reporter: but here in the dirt lies reality. the lives of men, well, and children that ended before their dreams could even begin. >> and heidi joined us now from mick allen, texas, what's behind this. why are so many more children travel ago cross the border alone? >> reporter: ed border is right behind me, you can see mexico chess children aren't coming from mexico they are from latin america, central america, honduras, el salvador and ca the gang violence has risen and for

the parents the choice is let their kids be in a gang and earn a total of $3 a day as their highest dream in their home countries or risk this very perilous journey to the united states. >> heidi, thank you very much. the number of children found crossing the border alone has double since 2012. one refugees organization estimates 10,000 more kids will try to pass by september. hundreds of children apprehended this weekend from south america were taken to makeshift detention september in other words n know galleys i can arizona. and you caught women a boy who spent time in a similar detention certainty, right? >> reporter: al jazerra report odd the first wave of unaccompanied minors trying to cross illegal to the united apr. we are talking about children all under the age of 17 make this is long and dangerous journal friday places as heidi

mentioned in central america, guatemala, el salvador and honduras and they are coming because of the gang violence and also because of crushing poverty in their countries and also because many of them have been led to believe that they will be welcomed in the united states with open arms and we did meet sun such boy, 15-year-old axle from honduras, we had a chance to speak with him as he was trying to cross illegally from mexico in to nogales. >> translator: my name is axle, fernandez, i am 15 years old and i ham from honduras, i just want to see my dad and study. the journey didn't get to me. i feel good. but they tell me the hardest part is think doing. we'll see if it's hard in a moment. >> reporter: and axle was certainly right when he was told the hardest part is coming. his journey became very difficult. he was ultimately detained and he spent several months being moved from various detention and processing centers and axle's experience inside those

detention centers is very similar to what the hundreds of children here being held in nogales are no doubt experiencing and today i had an opportunity to speak with axle. i spoke with him over skype. i asked him about his experience through the help of a translator. how long did you spend in one of these centers and while you were there, were the officials giving you information about what the process is and when you might be moved or were they helping you try to locate relatives? >> translator: i was in there for a month and a half. nearly two months. they told us in there they didn't have immigration officials. they just came in as someone tried to escape. they gave each youth a caseworker who was in charge of following your case. if you want to call a family member, you have to make an official request with the phone numbers. if they don't accept it, then you can't call your relatives. the caseworker is the one that calls your family members to ask for all of your documents.

>> reporter: axle, when you were going through the process and you were held in these various detention centers, were you surrounded mostly by young children and teenagers or were there any adults? >> translator: the majority were young. in the first center i was in, there were like three or 400 kids. but because they kept catching so many every day, they decided to transfer some of us to another center, including me. in the other centers, it was the same thing. there are about three or 400 kids. then they sent me to another one that was big and there were about 600 kids. being there you feel desperate. wondering how your case is going. sometimes you would be there for two weeks and see other people who after five days were already being reunited with family. >> reporter: knowing what you know now, now that you have gone through the process, would you do it again? >> translator: yes, i would. i would do it again. >> reporter: axle was ultimately reunited with his father, he is now in texas, john, he is

awaiting a court hearing. >> all right, jennifer, thanks very much. and jennifer, is the senior program officer with him women's refugee commission working directly with children, migrants for the past 10 years and she joins us tonight in washington. welcome. >> thank you. >> jennifer there are reports of an increase in lone migrant children. why now? >> well, as the other reporters said, you know, the violence and the insecurity in their home countries has really reached a tipping point. it's not safe for a lot of these children to stay home. and despite knowing how dangerous the gin, is they joury decide to him come here because they decide they won't survive if they stay home. >> you have interviews a lot children just how dangerous is the trip? >> it's really horrible of the stories are terrible. >> reporter: everything from accidents when kid ride on top of the train as way of getting through mexico hitching a freeride on top of a train, they talk of falling asleep and

falling off the train and seeing people losing limbs. there are a lot of people who are taking advantage of migrants through mexico, so they kidnap them to extort money from their families. i have talked to girls who were raped on the journey. a common story we hear is that girls may take birth control even before they embark on the journey because they expect to get raped along the way. it's really terrible. >> how do these children makes the decision to cross the border without their parents? >> there is different ways. i think some kids, you know, talk to their family about it and, some of their parents feel like they can't keep them safe anymore base the gangs are recruiting them so heavily. i spoke with an learn-year-old boy who told me the gangs were recruiting him and he was worried for the safety of his mother and six slings so he just did he eyeded to go on his own and. did tell her he was leaving the country. >> what happens if they get to the u.s.? >> if they make it the u.s. they likely apprehend ahead long south west board by customs and

border protection and then held onto where they do "the stream" the screening and they are holding them in detention, that point they are pit in to deportation proceedings. so all of these children are put in to proceedings to -- and a judge will ultimately decide whether they can stay here in the united states legally or if they need to be removed and did hdeported back to their home country. >> how do you think the u.s. should handle these children? >> i think there are a few things we need to do. i think president obama declaring this as an emergency was the first step. need to been about it is a humanitarian crisis and try to address the root. >> reporter: problem. it's just just an immigration issue it's the side effect of the troubling conditions in these countries. a we need for make sure when they are here they are treated as children making sure they are being cared for and held in rah appropriate conditions if they are going to be deported they need to be reintegrated safely so they don't field like they

need to they my great to the re. reremy great. >> this year they are predicting it might be tripled from last year. the jugs have sky rocket it in the past three years. >> i ever us a defense sense of that. 47,000 una up asked children. >> 47,000 just this fiscal year so far and, so we have a few more months for this fiscal year. the year before it was over 24,000 the year before that over 13,000. historically it had normally about seven or 8,000 kids each year and it was steady until the past few years is how is mexico dealing with this? they are in a tough spot they are used to being the sending company where people are leaving from and now they are a receiving country as well.

there are children who told also their ultimate destination was mexico thought they would be seeking asylum there. they are in a tough position they are a transit country where people are trying to go through them and returning to a receiving country where people are saying i think mexico is safer than my home country and try to stay there. >> what happens to the kids in mexico? >> well, mexico has a relatively new migration law, the problem is the implementation, so what we are talking to mexican officials is about them developing an asylum system, and a child protection system so that they can be taken care of these -- taking care of these children as well. >> jennifer good to have you on the program thank you for your insight. >> thank you. the justice department musing closer to reduces the sentences it of thousands of nonviolent drug offenders. today eric hold early threw his hat behind the plan to shorten by 23 months if this late every mesh sura proved as many as

20,000 nonviolent offenders could be eligible for reduced sentences the vote is expected to take place next month. coming up at 11:00 eastern time, a major blow to teachers and their unions in california a judge strikes down the state's laws on tenure. we'll take a look the at what it takes to get a bad feature fired. plus that's the song gel us by chrome yo. the canadian electro funk duo stops by to talk about what sum some are calling the song of the summer. and their long road to musical success. those stories and much more tonight at 11:00 eastern 8:00 pacific time. recapping tonight's breaking news story, house majority leader eric cantor has lost his primary to a tea party-backed candidate. here is what he had to say after the loss. >> we need to focus our efforts as conservatives, as republicans, on putting forth our conservative solution says

so that they can help solve the problems for so many working middle class families that may not have the opportunity that we have. >> economics professor dave brat defeated cantor. brat accused cantor of backing immigration legislation that would give amnesty to millions of people living illegally in the united states. and fin finally like many bg cities london england has a growing anybody of homeless people, one luxury building has taken an unusual step to try to stop anyone from sleeping on its doorstep it's an idea london's mayor calls stupid. simon mcgregor wood has the story. >> reporter: they were spotted by a passerby a few days ago he posted the picture odds twitter and the story speared as did the outrage, this is a private building in an area that's been smartened up and where two bedroom apartments cost and $1.5 million. it's not that uneurope. some have compared the spikes to

the ones used to stop him uns from sitting on buildings this, that case, though, human beings are the target. >> it's not the way to treat it. it's ridiculous, petty and bad publicity. i would have thought a p.r. disaster for the people owning the building. >> spikes move people on and prevent people surviving essentially. so, yeah, i think it's pretty shocking and abysmal. >> reporter: this had become quite a popular spot for the homeless, it's setback from the road, sheltered from the elements and while these spikes aren't exactly sharp, they are certainly enough to prevent anyone sleeping here. it seems the residents of this building at least don't want the nuisance of homelessness on their doorstep. homelessness is another rise in london. in it the first three months of 2014, over 2,000 people excellent on the streets of the capital. a 75% increase in the last three years. in england, 53,000 people are now registered as homeless, a 21% rise since 2010. >> people homeless is a pretty

tough experience, homeless people die on average 30 years younger than the vinnie population, thegeneralpopulatio. the response to this story has been really encouraging because members of public have been coming forward and saying this isn't the way that we should treat people. >> reporter: in london the toxic combination of inflated rental prices and the chronic shortage of supply is creating a housing crisis and made worse by kits in-housing spending particularly on housing benefits, may go it almost impossible to get the long-term homeless like this people off the streets and in to accommodations so they can rebuild their lives, their situations are compounded often by drugs and alcohol problems. in some cases people would rather move the problem on than deal with its causes. simon mcgregor wood, al jazerra, london. and now an image that caught our eye it comes from eye rock. citizens fleeing their homes in mosul. here they sit in a long line of

cars waiting to clear a kurdish checkpoint after their province was seized by fighters. we'll see you back here at 11:00 eastern time. 8:00 pacific. al jazerra with joie chen is coming up next.

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